Giants pursue giant women.
Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.6.8.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 4, Canto 58
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 3, Canto 20
- NorseThe First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Book 9
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 5, Canto 2
Scholars’ trail — 5references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- Irish myth*Cross
- SwedishRuna IV (1843) 27 No. 10
- GermanGrimm Deutsche Sagen (1907) No. 318.4
- TirolZingerle (1891) 176–180.
- general Broderius § 30